SYL_BMC
SYL_BMC
Sr. Topics
No.
1. Building Construction & Materials: Properties of wet and hardened concrete, tests on
concrete, factors affecting strength of concrete, water-cement ratio, aggregate-
cement ratio, mix design, additives, design of form work, types of formwork.
Stones, bricks, cements, lime, mortar, timber, plastic, concrete, steel, paints and
varnishes. Principles of building planning and design, integrated approach, building
byelaws, building services such as vertical transportation, water supply sanitation,
thermal ventilation, lighting, acoustics, fire protection, electrical fittings.
Foundations, stones, brick and block masonry, steel and reinforced cement concrete
structures, floors, doors and windows, roofs, finishing works, water proofing.
5. Design of reinforced concrete structures (Working stress and limit state): Design of
slab, beam, columns, footing, retaining walls, tanks, building frames, staircases.
11. Bridge Engineering: Selection of site, types of bridges, discharge, waterway, spans,
afflux, scour, standards, specifications, loads and forces, erection of superstructure,
strengthening.
b. Waste water Engineering & Pollution control: Quantity, collection and conveyance
and quality, disposal, design of sewer and sewerage systems, pumping,
characteristics of sewage and its treatment, rural sanitation, sources and affects of
air and noise pollution, monitoring, standards.